In a strange and lethal new world Buffy and the Scoobies find friends, romance, and deadly peril  and a magic that changes the entire galaxy in ways that no-one could have predicted. Back in Sunnydale, Randy and Joan, Rupert and Anya, Willow and Tara, Alex, and Umad make unexpected new friends and face astonishing dangers. Watching both worlds, the Trio make strides to that strange and awesome goal of Character Development.

And then the SGC gets involved... Which spins out into a case marked for the NCIS...

Story Threads:

The core story, Tabula Avatar, which deals with the Scoobies' adventures and events in Sunnydale.

Alien Arts Are Appreciated: The richness of Earth music wins many fans and even seems to be preferred by magic itself over the native generic bardic songs. This trope also applies to many Earth imports such as watches, bras and sunglasses.

Dark Is Not Evil: Turns out that many of the dark deities of Faerūn, if given the opportunity to grow beyond their status of two-dimensional game characters, will network and make better choices.

For a closer look at the immediate aftermath of the Scoobies not regaining their memory, see one of the inspirations for this story: Kallysten's and Kantayra's Tabula Rasa Ad Aeternum.

Light Is Not Good: Sune, goddess of beauty, will drop anyone who loses physical attractiveness, even for scars acquired in saving people. Especially horrible considering that those who are rejected that die before finding a new patron god will be made into bricks for the Wall of the Faithless...

That certain enchantments work differently between the first story and Neverwinter Nights due to the edition change is Lampshaded by the characters.

Running Gag: Expect every raised eyebrow to be compared to some other ascent, possibly involving Sherpas.

Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness: Buffyverse vampires count as positive energy creatures, so they lack a level drain ability. As they are able to feed safely from willing victims and survivors of their attacks heal at a normal rate they rank as being friendlier than D&D vamps.

Dark Is Not Evil: Viconia, one of the Generally Evil Drow, has her alignment shift away from the extreme, thanks to good works and Character Growth. Even in canon, when left alone between games, she tries to live a simple, non-threatening life. As she's the most vital core of Shar's worship thanks to her nearness to the 'realness' matrix that is Dawn, this affects her patron goddess of shadows as well. Later, Shar gets Vhaeraun and his followers to come along.

Do Wrong, Right: Buffy's shocked when Dawn swears in Ilythiiri. Tara makes her say it again, this time with proper grammar.

Rewriting Reality: As a group, the Trio make at least two deliberate adjustments to the running code of the Scoobies' new reality, each time with unexpected results. The first makes a fight rather more dangerous, the second sets off a story arc.

Save Scumming: Often when the Trio reload from a saved game Buffy and Sorkatani receive prophetic dreams of the overwritten future.

Sorkatani: Sometimes I dream of dying. Those dreams make no sense at the time but later I will find myself in a situation that I recognize. I make sure that I do not do what I did in the dream, and I live. It scared me at first but now those prophetic dreams are almost a comfort.

Shout-Out: Spellsinger is referenced as Giles' inspiration for how bards should work. He and Spike also have a ton of UK-based in-jokes that leave the rest of the cast scratching their heads.

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